Eustace Chapuys

Eustace Chapuys (1490-21 January 1556) was the Holy Roman Empire's ambassador to England from 1529 to 1545, succeeding Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga and preceding Francois van der Delft.

Biography
Eustace Chapuys was born in Annecy, Savoy, Holy Roman Empire in 1490, and he studied at Turin, Valence, and the Sapienza University of Rome. Chapuys became a humanist, and he made good friends with Thomas More and Desiderius Erasmus (the latter through writing only). In 1517, he became an ordained priest of the Catholic Church, and he became a Canon of the Cathedral of Geneva and Dean of Viry. After being appointed to several other church offices, Chapuys became ambassador to England in 1529, succeeding Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga. He defended Catherine of Aragon against King Henry VIII of England's divorce proceedings, as Chapuys had legal expertise and was fluent in Latin. In 1539, he began to suffer from gout, and he was relieved in 1545 after telling Emperor Charles V of his health issues. He died in Louvain, Duchy of Brabant in 1556 at the age of 66.